New Show: Welcome to our Website (enjoy the art of Joe Gayford age 10)

So by now you'll have checked out our new awesome website, you may in fact be listening to the show via it. It's awesome so be sure to peruse and enjoy the shows, the videos, the interviews and everything else x



This week our cover art is supplied by the talented Joe Gayford (age 10)and the tracks for this week are;
Regulate - Warren G and Nate Dogg (RIP Nate Dogg)
Lifesize Doll House - Joe Innes
Do Right - Summer Hours
Diving - Evangelicals
Skinnybone - Sea of Bees
You've got everything now - The Smiths
Rumours in Town - The Exploding Hearts
Dust - Love is All
O Lilac - Wild Nothing
Nine on the Line - Johnny Reb
Hamilton Road - Ducktails
Sunset - The Babies
Hypnotic Suggestion - The Apples in Stereo
Have you ever been in Jail - Hollywood Sinners


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MIXTAPE: Everybody's Stalking

We're big big big fans of Mixtapes here at the Tuckshop HQ. Some of us even make them on cassettes, even though some others don't own cassette players and thus, the whole exercise redundant. Though the effort is always appreciated, I'm sure.

Anyway, we're aiming to locate and distribute some of the best digital mixes on the badass, world wide web and to start with we've got a real beauty from Everybody's Stalking, the label behind Tuckshop Favourite Melodica, Melody and Me.

You can lovingly download the mixtape from the soundcloud link below, though do please take the time to check them out and all the lovely artists they're putting out there.

from us to you - a mix from everybody's stalking by everybodysstalking


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Albums to enjoy a pot of tea with # 4 & 5 Pants Yell! Alison Statton & Received Pronunciation

It’s fair to say that when you first hear Pants Yell!, your whole body is taken over by a wave of uncontrollable delight which is reason enough for us to add not one but two albums into the “Enjoy with a pot of tea” category. To be fair both of these albums are both short and more importantly sweet enough to be listened to back to back. Quite frankly a superior way to spend an hour.

Sadly Pants Yell! are no longer with us having decided to call it quits in the summer of 2010 (a great shame as the Tuckshop faithful only stumbled across them at the tail end of 2009) however in their trail they have left a brilliant legacy of cheery American art school indie basement pop. Both Alison Statton and Received Pronunciation (possibly their 3rd and 4th Albums) are a welcome addition to any record collection as their songs evoke images of run down rehearsal rooms, small sweaty gigs at parties and art student liberation.

be sure to bag yourself copies of both Alison Statton and Received Pronunciation







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Latest show featuring Joe Innes

The first of our hopefully many Late Night Living Room Sessions with the Sassy Joe Innes......Enjoy



Here is the Tracklisting;

Blind Muslim Girl - Fergus and Geronimo
Pet Cemetary - Joe Innes
Going to Maryland - The Mountain Goats
Kill the Touts - Cherry but No Cake
Draculas Daughter - Colin Malloy
Supernatural car lover - Bobby P
Life size Doll House - Joe Innes
Whale - Yellow Ostrich
I am produced - Guided By Voices
Ears to the ground - Ice Black Birds
If you shoot the head you'll kill the girl - Jeff Lewis
Call me Al - Joe Innes
Stumptown - Nickel Creek
Pretty Pain - Money Mark
People gotta learn - Neko Case
Sweetheart revolution part 1 - Joe Innes


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Late Night Living room session with Joe Innes

So it finally happened and we managed to get ourselves together to film and record a late night living room session with the rather friendly Joe Innes on a late winters evening. An event which was exciting due to a number of reasons. 1 - we're big fans of Joe Innes and 2 - we were putting our late night sessions theory to the test.

The evening in all reality, couldn't have gone smoother. Joe, the epitome of an urban anti folk gentleman, patiently strummed and sung his way through a variety of his killa records while we filmed and recorded his super narrative songs, all of which were creatively packaged into a couple of charming lo-fi minutes.

The camera lights, shone brightly, the company was top notch while the Tea and Spaghetti Carbonara flowed freely. We'd like to thank Joe Innes for his time and excellent record choice and am sure that you'll like the end product.
































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New Show - Waiting for the website

So we're still building our site. It won't be too long we promise! In the meantine tune into our latest show as it's bound to make your Friday xx


The bad boy records this week are;

baby steps - animal train
vultures - micachu and the shapes
bizness - tune yards
hold on (tuckshop living room session) - melodica, melody and me
albert kroft - cuffs
not important - cloud nothings
offensive young man - 40 million mexicans
twenty - wayter
modern kicks - the exploding hearts
to where - grass widow
omg - you say france and I whistle
whitney always knew - destroy munich
pet cemetary - joe innes



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Time to check out......Cowbell

We had the pleasure of seeing Cowbell late last year by pure chance, but what a chance! As they have been entertaining myself and the good listeners of Tuckshop Community Radio with the first couple of releases. Rumour has it that this Stoke Newington double act are working on some new material so go check em out and tap your foot to their steady Stokey Street Beat.

You can join Cowbell on facebook here

You can listen to Cowbell on Tuckshop Community Radio right here

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Tuckshop totally loves this: Stop frame music video shot on Hipstamatic

We're not completely sure of the actual record that this video accompanies but that doesn't really matter as the video is definitely worth watching, We have reason to believe that this is the first of it's kind as it's a stop frame animation shot completely in Hipstamatic.......glorious!



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Valentines Videorama

Today is Valentines day so here are some alternative Valentine style videos for you to check out... We also have the Tuckshop Valentine special for your ears as well....

Badly Drawn Boy - Once around the Block

Based on a true story, these young lovers tell a cautionary tale of bad dentistry.



Daft Punk - Da Funk

It's your classic Spike Jonze fairy tale - Dog moves to the big city, meets his unrequited childhood sweetheart, gets kicked off a bus.... but does he get the girl?




Daft Punk - Fresh

Francis did get the girl!



The white stripes - Fell in love with a girl

Michel Gondry lego loving masterpiece.



Travis - coming around

Another heartfelt tale of the trials and tribulations of an giant egg unable to meet the girl of his dreams.



Weezer - Keep fishin

Miss Piggy prefers drummers and is determined to get her man.



Melodica, Melody and me - Piece me back together

Brixton folksteppers with full hearts and sweet melodies.



Ben Lee - Pop Queen
A young Ben Lee sings dreams of ideal women.




Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone

A tragic love affair between a bug and a woman.

Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

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Albums to enjoy a pot of tea with #3 The Lives of Charles Douglas

This absolute gem of a record was actually released in the late 90's and despite it's sheer brilliance, did at that time fall on deaf ears. However it has a happy ending as having been released towards the end of 2010 it's become one of the favourite albums here at the Tuckshop HQ. Scuzzy guitars and garage drums punch through one slacker anthem after another filling you with images of lazy summer days with very few cares.

From what i can gather Charles Douglas was some young upstart kicking around in New York in 1997 and recorded this album pretty much live in something like 10 days. It totally sounds like a New York record, further emphasised by Velvet Undergrounds Mo Tucker filling in on drums (legend suggests this was as a last minute stand in as the band had no drummer)It's also worth a listen,so turn on the kettle, tuck into your burger king and embrace being a waster.






















The Lives of Charles Douglas has been released by Broken Horse so go check it out.

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Time to check out Lost Boy?

Lost Boy? resides in Brooklyn and makes excellent music that we hope to be playing on many future shows. Go check him out now and enjoy this excellent video. Who says smashing up old Golf GTi's can't be fun.



Lost Boy? can be found here www.lofihigh.com

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Monday Mania: You Say France and I whistles OMG video

There a lot of reasons why you should pay more attention to You Say France and I whistle. They come from Sweden, most of them sport long hair and beards, they seem to like soft toys, but most importantly they make very, very good records. Full of jangly melodic Scandinavian sophistication their last EP aptly named 2008 was probably one of the best EP's I've ever been sent and was played nonstop for months.

2011 should be a cracker for YSF&IW as they've just released a brilliant follow up EP called Angry Boy. Once again it's full of uplifting riffs and catchy melodies and hasn't left the Tuckshop jukebox, since it's purchase last week. Here is the video to the first track OMG which features beautiful countryside and grown people dressing up as animals:perfect to ease you into this Monday morning.



Check out YSF&IW at www.yousayfrance.com and pick up a copy of both their EP's.

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Albums to enjoy a pot of tea with #2 Wolf Peoples Steeple

Released last year, Wolf Peoples Steeple is one of those rare albums, if not the only one, that hurls you onto a sturdy white horse running at full pelt, taking you on a journey through misty lands, strange beasts, wizard like folk and dark mountains. Full of magical mystery, It’s actually the sort of stuff that I could imagine my dad listened to when he was back at art college, when his hair was long with a head full of psychedelic dreams. This album (the second one by Wolf People) is a recording full of Screaming guitars and folky vocals mixed with thumping flutes and crashing cymbals, thus creating a wall of joyful haze that one can easily get lost in.

Tuckshop Community Radio have long been admirers of Wolf People since stumbling across their myspace page by chance a few years back. We have loved every release since and have no doubt that these guys have further lands to conquer which we hope to enjoy. Go pick up up a copy of Steeple now!















For more info on Wolf People please visit their page www.wolfpeople.co.uk and if you want to hear them on Tuckshop Community Radio then tune in to the show.

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Lola lo lo lo lo lola

It’s official, Lola's bakery based in Primrose hill are by far the best cup cakes I have ever tasted. This blog usually reports on music and the occasional bit of art and photography, however the Tuckshop HQ is so enamoured with these palm sized balls of deliciousness that we felt the need to share it with you all. Now we know that usually Tuckshops favourite baked tipple is the flap jack or on occasion due to our heritage, the Cornish Cream tea, but the time has now come for us to squeeze Lola’s cupcakes into our virtual pantry. You can’t go far these days without spotting a brightly iced mini cake but in all honesty not many actually taste that great. Lola's on the other hand explode in your mouth like light, sweet spongey dynamite topped with silky smooth icing.

Get down to one of their outlets and prepare to put on some pounds. In fact tuck into one and tune into our latest Show.

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This weeks show is now out.....

We've got quite a cracker this week so it's really worth a listen. If you like the sound of surfcore, garagebeat and folk it could just be the show for you....



here is the tracklisting;
fergus and geronimo - blind muslim girl
los readymade - spida
the launderettes - juvenile thrills
melodica, melody and me - diamonds on the soles of her shoes
grass widow - celebrate the mundane
the seeds - can't seem to make you mine
tralala - yellow taxi
me and my friends - this life makes me wonder
the cigarette bums - goin nowhere
forty million mexicans - offensive young man
the flips - I just don't know where I stand
the just joans - boyracer (baby's a)
beach fossils - youth
beulah - disco: the secretaries blues


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Albums to enjoy a pot of Tea with #1 Destroy Munich's Don't Forget the Birthday Cake

Launched at the back end of last year Destroy Munich's don't destroy the birthday cake has entertained the Tuckshop Community Faithfull right through Christmas and well into the new year. Jangly guitars consistently punch out melodies that keep your head nodding and your foot tapping from the opening track right through to the very last.

We don’t actually know too much about Destroy Munich, though we think that they might be from Germany or through a little more research, more likely from Austria. However what we can tell you is that this album is a real treat and should be a definite member of any record collection.

Out on the Schoenwetter Schallplatten record label you can easily purchase Don’t forget the birthday cake online or through all good record stores which will not only improve your day but also leave you wanting more.

Expect lots of future plays on Tuckshop Community Radio as we wait in hope that one day this band of merry musicians will visit these British shores, further enlightening us.















To check of Destroy Munich please visit www.destroy-munich.at/wordpress/

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The excellent Tuckshop article by Tom Jenkins

It now seems quite a lifetime ago but way back in the summer the rather talented journalist Tom Jenkins produced an article on Tuckshop Community Radio for hip magazine Poxymash. It seemed wrong not to post it up on the blog so this weeks interview is with us!

We recommend that you all check out Tom Jenkins own blog for more valuable and incredibly well written insights in to the world of music at www.legguitar.wordpress.com

Here is the said article (complete with picture)














‘BRING ON THE BACON!’

By Tom Jenkins

Jack bacon is obsessed with music. The kind of music that makes synapses fire and hearts sing celestial notes. The 30yr old, originally from Cornwall but now based in Kentish Town, North London, is the man behind ‘Tuckshop Community Radio’: a weekly podcast designed to give an airing to those records ‘which may not get heard by many people, though they deserve to be’; a potent mix of psycho-punk, sunny pop and enchanting folk weirdness.

Tuckshop started life back in 2007 as a way of directing traffic to the site of a failing street-wear company: ‘I’d been searching MySpace for bands that might fancy wearing some merchandise’ says Jack. ‘The idea was to play unsigned punk and have a weekly show played through the site. However, I kept coming across this rich, varied music so I started playing everything’. He remembers being ‘astonished’ at how bad those early shows sounded, but as people started to listen and contact him with messages of support he became increasingly inspired to search out new music. ‘It really opened my eyes’, he tells me. ‘I was amazed at the wealth of music that could be found’.

Back to the present day, and Jack admits he has created his ‘own little world’ around Tuckshop. Described as ‘the new Radio 1’, responsible for keeping ‘the spirit of independent music alive’, it’s very much a one-man operation-as is the accompanying blog. Each hour-long show has a small, but devoted, following, with listeners from as far afield as Brazil and California. Does he feel Tuckshop and its ilk have an important role to play? ‘With the Internet and the rise of podcasts, people can now choose what they want to listen to and when’ he says. ‘If the medium can grow, then hopefully good, unsigned, music can be promoted honestly.’



Interestingly, Jack doesn’t listen to other podcasts, a combination of being extremely busy with Tuckshop and wanting to stick with his own intuition, so what inspires him? ‘Over the years I’ve come across so many creative people, all doing different things, that I’m inspired on an almost daily basis. The more people that contact me the more great music I hear and need to get out to our listeners’. What about in the early days? Was there a template? ‘When I first started I never came across anyone else, although I do believe there are others out there, in fact, I imagine there must be loads’.

A quick search of Google suggests otherwise, but feel free to correct me. Radio as a medium is now more popular than ever. According to recent figures released by Rajar, over 90% of people in Britain aged 15 or over tune in every week. This resurgence is due, in part, to the industry’s ability to adapt to the rapidly changing technological climate, having weathered the more serious threat posed by the arrival of T.V. in the 1950’s. While one in three people now listen to a digital radio, and those listening online and via mobiles is on the increase, Jack still has a soft spot for traditional tuner twiddling (no knob jokes I’m afraid); though he recognizes the advantages the Internet has to offer:

‘I think there is still something magical about picking up music through the Wireless. I love the fact that in London every click on a tuner brings you to a different pirate station. Having said that, the Internet will no doubt have a large part to play in the future. If it didn’t exist, Tuckshop wouldn’t have happened and I never would have come across all these wonderful bands’.

A number of artists featured on Tuckshop have begun to make inroads into reaching a wider audience. Both ‘Melodica, Melody and Me’ and ‘The Hornblower Brothers’ have recently recorded sessions for 6 Music (for Tom Robinson and Marc Reilly respectively). Huw from ‘Melodica…’ feels the early exposure they received on Tuckshop was invaluable: ‘We’d only just started getting our act together and playing gigs when Jack got in touch and said he’d been playing us on his podcast. I remember feeling chuffed that somebody we’d never met liked our music enough to want to present it to the public. It was really encouraging’.

So what’s next for Tuckshop? ‘I’ve no idea!’ says Jack. ‘It’s always moving in a new direction! However, I have a new night starting at the Hideaway in Tufnell Park called ‘Ditch the drums’, which should be a nice and intimate way to showcase some of the artists I’ve been playing on Tuckshop. We’ve also started to film bands in my living room, with a pretty good team of individuals who are working hard for the cause. I’d love to take them (the filming team) to far-flung places such as L.A., to record sessions with some of the bands I’ve got to know. We could tour the west coast in an ice cream van, putting on free gigs!’

We say go for it, Jack.

And Tuckshop Says Cheers Tom!



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Monday Mania Makes John Duva the video of the week.

John Duva unashamedly make loud, good old fashioned Rock which we at Tuckshop Community Radio are perfectly happy to embrace. Two years ago they got us all shaking our hips along to their rifftastic record Fogden and now we are hooked on the equally as good anthem Gå till sjöss (meaning "go to sea" I think ). I have no doubt that these guys are destined to fill out stadiums all over the world with their amps turned all the way up to eleven, but in the meantime if you live in their native Sweden be sure to take this opportunity to let down your hair, don your studded leather jacket and ripped jeans and 'Rock the hell out'.



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You can hear John duva on this weeks show here and find more rocking anthems at www.myspace.com/johnduva and on Facebook

James Flames is the man of the hour!

James Flames gets another huge thumbs up from the Mighty Tuckshop Community Radio for kindly sending through this incredible screenprint. Setting the wintry tone it leaves me wanting to get myself a canine companion, wrap a scarf round my neck and go for long walks in the country.


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The first show of 2011 is out now!

Yep we are back from our mini break in Sri Lanka and have a cracker jack of a new show for you all to listen to! Enjoy x



Here is the track listing....
Mathar - Dave Pike
Damn Damn Leash - Be Your Own Pet
Woyzuck don't forget the birthday cake - Destroy Munich
Heartbreaker - Girls
Nine on Line - Johnny Reb
Garage 0 Muerte - Los Peyotes
Just Want your love - Cowbell
Earlybird School - Charles Douglas
Ga till sjoss - John Duva
See how the Sun - Surf City
Kiss your lips - Allo Darlin
Surfin KMC - Hanoi Janes
Tracyanne - Horowitz
Pent Up Boy - The Whaas

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Los Peyotes Produce rawkus video

We are huge fans of Garage beat and huge fans of Dirty Water Records, therefore it came as no surprise to us that we would naturally love the Los Peyotes visual offering to their latest single Garage o Muerto. Featuring fuzzy guitars, super sassy Latino vixens a large variety of weaponry. This super grainy, b- movie beauty has enough grindhouse glamour to keep us all entertained and longing for a sequel....




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